"There is the Foreign Office, and English policy, and the ministers, and--and Eglington.

What need of me ?" He saw the thought had flashed into her mind that he did not trust her husband.

"Thee knows and cares for Egypt, and knowing and caring make policy easier to frame," he rejoined.
Suddenly a wave of feeling went over her.

He whose life had been flung into this field of labour by an act of her own, who should help him but herself?
But it all baffled her, hurt her, shook her.

She was not free to help as she wished.